64 The Botanical Gazette. (February, 
years he was a member of the school board and he assisted 
largely by his energy and wisdom in raising the public schools 
to their present high standard. For eight years he served on 
the library board. In 1888 he bought a piece of land in 
southern Wisconsin on the shore of the Lauderdale lakes and 
built a small house, where for eight successive years the fam- 
ily spent their summers in rest and retirement. In this way 
Mr. Bebb avoided the summer heat and there he did some of 
his best work on the willows. He built with his own hands 
a lapstreak boat large enough to take all the family, and he 
was never tired of being rowed about over the clear water. 
August 9, 1888, he writes, ‘‘At the extreme west end of 
Middle lake are a number of immense springs probably the 
outlet of some subterranean communication with other bodies 
of water. They vary from ten to one hundred feet in depth, 
and to float over them in a boat gives one a strange impres 
sion, as if suspended in mid-air. The water is beautifully 
Harbor, Florida. He enjoyed his stay there for three mont 
and, before returning home, spent two weeks in Demorest. — 
His last trip south was with his wife in January, 1895. They 
kept house for three months in Demorest, but unexpected cold 
weather rendered this visit unsuccessful, and Mr. Bebb w4 
glad to get home. 
ae In June, 1895, he published the willows of the Peary Aux 
iliary Expedition in Bulletin V of the Geographical Club 
Philadelphia. With this exception he had not published af)" _ 
